Keeps record of actions and events in the field of distance education and similar notions, such as learning technologies, virtual education, online learning, e-learning, CMC, cyberspace education, Web based training, asynchronous learning, open learning, virtual classrooms, mobile learning, and ITC

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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

An innovative way to bring into distance education a set of case studies has been developed by Professor Matt Cookson at the University of New Hampshire. Professor Cookson uses The New York Times as a vast learning repository posing real life dilemmas. The powerful search engines of this important newspaper help the students to track the chosen case. For the full story visit Inside HigherEd at:

Thursday, April 10, 2008

A group congregated under the name Magister music has put together an interesting site, open to the world, for whoever wants to learn music. Authors, instruments and techniques are easy to find after registering as members of this learning community.

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Hi! I have a doctoral degree in adult/distance education at the Pennsylvania State University and work as a Graduate Faculty Mentor at Fielding Graduate University. My professional experience includes being a visiting research faculty t at NASA, a pioneer in the development of the Global Distance (now called "Development") Learning Network at the World Bank and being part of the development team of the regional distance learning network at Inter-American Development Bank. I have taught at Athabasca University, the University of Maryland University College and being a regional consultant for ICT usage by government officials and citizens od 17,000 municipalities in LAC through ICMA/USAID. I have has vast experience as international consultant in Europe and Latin America, and have been the Program Director of the Masters of Distance Education at University of Maryland University College in a binational program associated to the University of Oldenburg. Presently, I teach in immersive environments (Second Life) and do research on competency based curriculum in Latin America.